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phantasmagorical world where the last gunshots of the expressionist poetry are still shining, Maluese's magnetic sight occurs through smoke, transvestites, artistocrats, courtesans, the bourgeoisie and the players.
The pervasive mood aesthetic {rasa) of this cinema was fuelled by a
phantasmagorical search for "love" as the obscure object of desire.
Scliar's
phantasmagorical novel lacks the rigid historical detail of a traditional alternate-history fiction.
The poet Shimon Ginzburg, who came to America in 1912 at the age of 22, wrote about the city in
phantasmagorical terms: in "Bamigdal" ("In the Tower"), he describes the Statue of Liberty holding up not a torch but "a clenched fist," and telling new arrivals, "Come to me, all who are hungry.
A follow up albeit twenty years since Rushdie's best children's contemporary fable, the
phantasmagorical allegory Haroun and the Sea of Stories, this title, dedicated to the author's second son on his twelfth birthday, excels with its depth and breadth of exploring the wonderful world of magic.
In the two long and delightful chapters devoted to Yeats, Cuda traces multiple "passion scenes" as examples of the "
phantasmagorical shape-changers" that are "undoubtedly connected to the deluge of symbolic images that beset the visionary poet at the height of inspiration" (103).
But I think the most promising aspect of this approach is that it might eliminate the need for the
phantasmagorical "dark energy." The search for dark energy has grated on my amateur theoretical instincts for years, as it represents a "correction factor" for the incorrectness of our theories.
Certain
phantasmagorical shots possess the power of religious icons: Wood surrounds the head of his dead wife with a metallic halo of light bulbs in a desperate attempt to resuscitate her.
It's a world of dubious alliances and loyalties, its
phantasmagorical quality enhanced by frozen tableaux and concealed views.
Such a disruptive flight of fancy is a departure from Preljocaj's darker side (the French-Albanian's acclaimed Romeo and Juliet featured the heroine as the daughter of a Ceausescu-style dictator to Romeo's homeless drifter), and while this
phantasmagorical journey may only be as deep as a child's wading pool, there is much to marvel at in the production.
Freidrichs features recurring images of a full moon, a typewriter, a reel-to-reel recorder, curtains, a bleeding chunk of human brain, a bottle of whiskey, and others to suppose a
phantasmagorical presence for Jandek's identity as artist.
Comprised chiefly of recent large-scale, neoclassical tableau vivant photographs in the style of Thomas Couture or Oscar Rejlander, Antin's exhibition mines nineteenth-century salon paintings of Greco-Roman myths and allegories, digitally altering them in line with contemporary media follies, the conceits of fallen empire, and underlying themes of "herstory." Divided into three series of C-prints--"The Last Days of Pompeii" (2001), "Roman Allegories" (2004), and "Helen's Odyssey" (2007)--these deconstructed allegories have an obvious didactic tone, but their impish humor and
phantasmagorical quality infuse them with a contemporary style of informality.